McGovern in 2008
Thirty-six years ago, brash anti-war upstarts changed the rules of the game in the Democratic party, rejected a long-time leader of the party’s liberal wing, and succeeded in nominating a man who gave voice to their passionate anger against “the worst president of modern times” and his “quagmire” war.
Now, it may be the nutroots’ turn. In 2008, the moonbats may have a chance to repeat their stunning triumph in nominating one of their own.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) drew boos and hisses from an audience of liberal activists yesterday as she defended her opposition to a timetable for withdrawing U.S. forces from Iraq, and later she received an implicit rebuke from Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) for failing to acknowledge that her support for the war was a mistake.
Clinton’s and Kerry’s appearances at the Take Back America conference at the Washington Hilton put on vivid display the Democratic Party’s divisions over the foreign policy issue that dominates this year’s midterm elections, and the two possible 2008 presidential candidates offered a preview of the debate that could dominate the battle for the party’s nomination.
Clinton and Kerry supported the 2002 congressional resolution authorizing the Iraq war. Kerry recently renounced that vote, but Clinton has never done so. She finds herself in opposition to a majority of Democratic activists and is the target of passionate criticism from some of them.
Could a 15-Year-Old With a Laptop Be the New Campaign Media Guru? - New York Times
Daily Kos’s convention — the in-person gathering of the nation’s most-read online political blog — was practically carpeted with presidential candidates.On the whole, the new more participatory politics that the Internet is ushering in is clearly a good thing for democracy. Whether it turns out to be good for the Democratic Party in particular is yet to be seen. But the transformation seems inevitable. As successful as YearlyKos was this year, in 2007 it should be even bigger and more influential. Tom Vilsack, the former governor of Iowa and a likely presidential candidate, is already lobbying for it to be held in Iowa — the site of the first presidential caucuses in 2008.
As a good citizen, who is deeply committed to participatory politics, strictly because it is a good thing for democracy, I am in favor of this transformation of the Democratic party. I hope the nutroots activists reject Hillary Clinton, and nominate a man uniquely qualified to lead the party again in this critical time for our country - former CIA officer and “patriotic leaker,” Ray McGovern, whose interview you can read at (where else?) TruthNOT.org.
Let’s Party Like it was 1984
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Donna Brazile and the Fall of Rome
I, for one, welcome our new cornfield overlords